Get to Know Honey Bees

Honey bees are a very fascinating insect which have been cultivated and used by people for centuries. There are several passages from the bible that speak about honey. Bee by-products have been valuable to human health for several decades.

But, what is it about these interesting creatures that distinguish them from wasps and insects?

The honey bee, also called the Apis Mellifera, is a species of insect which has an intriguing chain of control and social networks. It all begins with an egg the queen puts to a fresh brood cell. These cells contain nutrients which the egg must have to grow.

Young bees aren’t alone, and you can find nurse bees around them, they are often older ones, and they feed them. The young worker bees grow very quickly, and begin to cocoon themselves to get their final metamorphosis into an adult.

Worker bees have jaws that bite inward, particular odor detectors and eyes that can detect ultraviolet rays. It’s these things that allow bees to maneuver from the shadow of the hive.

When the worker has hatched she starts to function immediately. In 1 hive, you will find approximately 30,000 worker bees, roughly 500 – 2,000 drones, and yet another Queen bee.

For around three months she helps around from the uterus, tending to other youthful eggs which are in cells. In the next week, she has her first test flight in the entrance of the hive. If this flight is powerful, she’s a guard for your hive.

The worker also helps her elderly sisters in fixing damaged cells, packs pollen in cells for the young ones, and ripening nectar in particular cells.

The colony of bees is always buzzing 24 hours 7 days per week.

In wild hives, after a colony gets too busy, the present queen, and a whole lot of worker bees venture outside and start a new hive. In domesticated hives, the beekeeper generally replaces the older queen with a younger queen, so the colony remains strong and does not split.

Queen bees begin their life very similar to worker bees. On the other hand, the one distinction is that eggs from the imperial cells are fed royal jelly, making the bees become Queen bees. There are typically 2 to 3 star bees “made” if the queen has expired or isn’t laying enough eggs to the hive. After those queen bees hatch, the new young queen will struggle with the older one, before the queen is sufficiently weak.

All that’s left now is to get the queen to partner with all the drones. After this mating ritual is completed, the queen could lay eggs for the remainder of her life, which will be approximately 5 – 6 decades. The typical lifetime of a worker is roughly 45 days. Palm Beach County Wildlife Removal can help remove an unwanted hive.